Most golfers are too “handsy.” All you have to do is watch them waggle the club before they swing and you’ll see what they are intending to do. They are all over the place. It’s easy to think that this is effective. If you use your hands more, you’ll get more distance, right? But in …
My wife’s family is from the South, and they’re also avid golfers, which means I have a good amount of experience playing down in Dixie. Usually I play in Virginia, which is relatively swampy, but nothing compared to the deep bogs of South Carolina, which I experienced during a vacation with my extended family. These …
Par fives, especially short ones, are seen as a place to make up for previous holes you messed up on. They’re an easy par or a potential birdie. But, once you get to the second shot, you’ll find that accuracy becomes increasingly important. Here are some tips to up your accuracy as you negotiate the …
Ever been jealous of those trick shot golfers who could skip a ball across water? It looks hard and, honestly, it is. In addition, it doesn’t really serve any practical purpose. But it’s a great way to impress your friends during informal rounds and, if you have a pool at home, you can perhaps practice …
It’s been a while since we’ve made any videos, but for a brief moment we here at Pause-n-Throw were cranking out short youtube clips faster than a Kardashian sister makes reality shows. Some were informative, others promotional, and some were just silly. Here’s one of the highlights. John Q. Duffer was never really good at …
Long time readers of the Pause-N-Throw blog will recognize our fiend and intellectual champion of sorts (he supports a swing that the Pause-N-Throw teaches), Jaacob Bowden. As a golfer, Jaacob has a problem that many golfers would love to have: he hits the ball too far. A few years ago, I invited Jaacob to my …
We at Pause-N-Throw are not afraid of tackling the most dense, technical, mind numbingly intense theoretical golf treatises out there. Remember when we tackled the Moment of Inertia and what it means for golf? Yeah, that was a classic. Now we’re back to give you a review of what might well be the War and …
This is a picture of The Square-To-Square Swing, a book that was written back in 1970. It’s hard to find now since it’s been long out of print, but I was lucky enough to find it at my local library. So what’s so great about this book? It shows that golf professionals have recognized for …
It’s the latest craze in golf books, but how will it help your golf game? Written by renowned business professor Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts promises to answer the following questions (courtesy of the book’s Amazon blurb): “What does it take to drop ten strokes from your golf score? What part of Tiger Woods’ game …
As you may have seen from our previous blogs, here at Pause-N-Throw Golf we are big fans of the idea of videotaping your golf swing. It’s a great way to make sure you’re swinging the right way, so you can reinforce correct motions and eliminate incorrect ones. Truth be told, you can get a lot …